 | Galbraith Miller Crump - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 196 pages
...but delay'd to strike, (XI. 491-92) while in Book II, Death threatens Satan: black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart. (II. 670-72) Other parallels between the two books may be summarized briefly. In Book II, as a result... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each sccm'd cither; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (II, 666-673) Again the description is of physical... | |
 | Taylor Corse - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1991 - 164 pages
...reader may recall how Milton describes Satan's first encounter with Death: black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart. (PL 2.670-72) Dryden's Alecto also "shakes" and throws "a pois'nous Dart"; this "Dart" is linked by... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - English poetry - 1999 - 164 pages
...Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short lines pack in an astonishing... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - History - 1999 - 416 pages
...republican freedom was, they believed, secure in a rising American empire. — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. —John Milton, Paradise Lost II We owe it... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 275 pages
...limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Burke relates this description to his chosen categories of obscurity,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward... | |
 | François Flahault - Good and evil - 2003 - 216 pages
...Or substance might be called that shadows seemed, For each seemed either - black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.3 In view of Burke's quotations from the Book of Job (man annihilated... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 870 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The... | |
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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And... 
